REWATCH: Various Shorts & The Pricemaster [2001]

Today was a special night because John, my friend and coworker, finally came to a movie night! Because we did a vertical drama last time, we decided to do a collection of shorts and favorite commercials including "Instant Adoring Boyfriend," the Game Crazy training video, a "Rainbow Sponge" compilation, "You Could Stop At Five Or Six Stores," Mike's Golf, Eagleman, Phil Davidson, Cami Secret, the Uroclub, Tiddy Bear, Booty Pop, etc. 

The highlight was a video John offered up called "The Pricemaster." To be clear, it wasn't bad but a delightful piece of performance art that immediately became a part of our obscure set of BMN phrases. The film starts with a quote from "The Medium is the Message" and a short cold open that clearly lays out that the medium is "garage sale." At this garage sale in Texas, there is a small stage for the Pricemaster: a figure clad in a red balaclava, gold mask, silver jacket, and red harem pants with Togo-esque structure. He speaks into a booming, reverb mic a few key phrases including "Make me an offer" and "I am the pricemaster." Whenever someone makes an offer, he raises it by hundreds, thousands, or millions of dollars. He also repeats those same phrases in Spanish. Sometimes he does weird, slow dance moves. No one buys anything. He is flanked by a sign that says "Thank you for shopping here. Your business is appreciated" but no business happens. It's beautiful.

No spoons but probably 4/5 stars. 

REWATCH: "An Idea Whose Time Has Come" [1990], "The Rainbow Sponge", "Creating Rem Lezar" [1988]

Last Monday we had a triple feature of some of the best shorts we've seen. We started with "An Idea Whose Time Has Come," the most vague infomercial ever for some sort of mineral supplement called KM. It was no more clear this time around but we did manage to find the product on Amazon and Adam made the dubious decision to buy a bottle. Stayed tuned, I guess, for a review of it. After that we enjoyed the full version of "The Rainbow Sponge" where a women named Dee gets nearly orgasmic over a dense sponge that you can decorate with, and then we enjoyed the glorious musical masterpiece "Creating Rem Lezar". We're still pretty sure it's some sort of creepy religious thing, but as long as the kids are happy. Enjoy this subtle juxtaposition again:

All three of these are worth your time and might be best watched in the order we did so you can slowly descend into madness.